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AT the February sessions, 1768, the court taking into consideration a petition preferred to them by the inhabitants of Derry township setting forth that the bounds of the said township were very extensive and large, and the inhabitants thereof labored under several inconveniences by reason thereof. and praying the said conrt to divide the said township into two parts, according to a boundary line agreed upon by the said inhabitants, to wit :
" Along a certain road leading from Conewago creek, by the widow Hall's ; thence to Felix Landis, senior, at Swatara creek, which said road is to fall into the east part of the said township, and that the said part be known by the name of Londonderry, and that the west part of said township retain the name of Derry. It is considered and ordered by the court that the said town-hip be divided agreeable to the prayer of said petition ; and that the >aid part to the east be known by the name of Londonderry, and the west end be known by the name of Derry, which said division line is hereby confirmed to be and re- main firm and stable forever, and as sneh to be entered of record."
The reasons for adopting the Quitopahilla Creek, etc., as the eastern boundary are stated under the head of Derry town-hip, and need not be repeated here.
The officers for the township from 1769 to 1785 are herewith given :
1769. Constable .- Rubert ('kirk.
Overseers of Poor .- John Campbell, John Chesnit.
Orerseers of Road,-John Sayers, James Forster.
1770. Constable .- Christian Stoner.
Overseers of Roads .- Christian Taner, David Wray.
1771. Consbible .- Robert Hay.
Overseers of Poor .- Jalia Campbell, John Che-nit. Ore-seers of Reds .- John Grabel, Robert MIcCallan.
1752. Constable .- Christiun Beatn.
Overseers of Poor .- Benjamin Buyd, Christian Tanner. Overseers of Rouds .- John Patten, Jacob Longenecker.
1773. Constable -Philip Fislebourn.
Overseers of Poor .- John Bowman, David Hay.
Overseer of Roads .- Robert Clark.
1774. Constable .- John Early.
Overseer of Poor .- Joseph Mcqueen, Clrey Walkmons. Orerseer of Roads .- John Camble.
1775. Constarb .- James Walker.
Overseers of Poor .- Thomas McCullen, Christian Snyder. Clark, Rob :. Urersort of Roads .- Hubert Hayn. Clark, W.Liter. .50 175
1776. Constable .- George bell.
Orcreare of Pour .- William Mare, Michael Tanner.
Overnat of Burada-cannel Broalley.
1777. Constable .- George Lett. 70
ITis. Constable -Poter Talibangb.
Querwer of Roads .- Francis Taylor.
1780. Constable .- James Kelly.
Overseers of Poor .- Saninel Brodly, Robert Hays. Overseer of Rouds .- James Sullivan.
1781. Constable. - Dewald Grim. Overseers of Poor .- William Hunter, John McCallan. Overseer of Roads .- David Hays.
1782. Constable,-John McCallen. Overseers of Poor .- Thomas Mitchell. Patrick Hays. Overseers of Roods .- Philip Fishbourn, James Kelly.
1783. Constable .- George Bell. . Overseers of Pour .- William Sawere, Mark Worst. Outreers of Roads .- John Myers, David Foster.
1784. Constable .- Robert McCallen. Verseers of Poor .- Hugh Hamilton, Dewalt Grins. Overseers of Roads -Christly Stoner, David McQueen.
1785. Constable .- James Kelly. Overseers of Pour .- John Morrison, Walter Clark. Overveers of Reads,-Jacob Reichard, Robert McCleary.
The Londonderry returns for 1730 give us the fol- lowing additional information from that herewith given : Mills were in the possession of William Moor, Sr. (2), Christian Snyder (2), and John Tanner. Stills were operated by Jacob Cook 31, Christian Early, and Deitrick Shultz. "Negro -ervants" were owned by Samuel Broadley, Jacob Cook, James Camp- bell, James Fo-ter, William Haya, Jr., James Kelly, John Logan (2), Archibald MeAlli-ter (3), and James Sullivan.
LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP RETURNS FOR 1780.
Avred.
Acres.
Brand, Mich!, no return ... ...
Ellot. Archibald .. ...
Blesk, John
Erdy, For., Senf ...
100
Buch., Christian
Erly. Ju .. It
Bho, Jut, Sehr 140
Erdy, Chris's
...
Bahn, Jnv., Jun: I10
Edy, Mich!
Babu, Ww ...
Eversole, Jean.
Bral, Ludwig, noreturn
Fliger, Tandwig,
Fliger. In .. no return .. ...
Bram, Chrisa., no return
Bedlion. Philip, no return. ...
Fishburo, Philip, Sen".
Buck, Rub -..
Farmer, Ww
Fishburn, Philip, Jan". 392
Bishop, Stophel.
Foster, Pavid.
Foster, Jantes 243
Boyd, Joseph
Farley, Jno ...
...
Boyd, Benj".
Feltsharger. Mich! 142
Bachman, Philip.
Bombaruser, Chrisn. 300
Fanlk.t. J. a.
Foster, Wia.
I.NI
Bypra. Andrew
Brough. Dan .. no retain
Uwv, W'm., Jun".
Bukbam. Joines
Hiy. Jime's
: 0
Cun-inger. Ju.
Hay, Matthew
Harchborger, Denl
50
Cooper, Juha, no return ...
Criger, Jacob, no return ...
Hunter, Rob:
1 10
Camble, Jsinog.
11 .. r ...... J .
Himlen, Hegh
HI-nrs. G., no return. ...
D nelson, Janits. ...
Diuinger, Adım.
Howberiy. Art iony
Duncan, Ja . 1:4
Hershey, Bens ..
Hrizle:, bamor
Diealach, Peter, ho return.
Il ar-t. J .u'.
Eshelman, Henry 30
lives. S .. m ..
419
145-
CoOR Jacob 9.19
Carmany. J ....
Hunter, Wn 100
Hay, Wm., Sunt
Munter, P. . d.
Crsito, Wa 1:10
Franz, Wi Li
Bran.I, Chris 150
H., PAvid ..
Farney, Jir , Da retten ...
Broadly. Sam! 226
Bowman, Henry, no return ..
Bowmit, Jacob. no return .. ...
420
HISTORY OF DAUPHIN COUNTY.
Acres.
Acres.
Huber, Ludwig
Nigh, Ww., no return. ...
Humble, Jno.
Null, Geo ..... ...
llay, Robt. 130
Grove, Jacob ..
Over, John. 100
Gran, Cornelius (ات
Garret, Juº ..
Grim, Dewalt.
Jordan, Geo ...
Prats, Nich.das. ...
Johnston, Charles
Johnston, Jit.
Peters, Geu.
Plonzh, Jacob, no return.
Kernaghan, Jna
Panter, Ju".
Penman. Peter
Pennai, James 170
Bow., Wil ... 11€
Reamer, Philip
Thay, Daynl 105
Rhay, Robe
Khav. J .. .
Kentshy. Jacob .. 15 Kiesur, Jn .. 100
Heaphand, Geo. 9. Biesor. Peter 200
Linch, Patrick
Linuin, Jarob.
Tust. Jacob
Rowland, Henry
R terbach, Peter, no return .. ...
>heuch. Dewalt ...
Snyder. Chrisa 200
Shire, Jacob, Sent 100
Landis, Felix, no return
Landis, Jne., no return
Stopher, Jarnb 25
Stoner. Christ 167
Shultz, Detrich. 25
Snlivan, James 300
Sawers, Benjm 600
McGlaughlin, Barnet.
Siwers, In>
>awer. W'm
Shortz. Mich!
Stwick. Chris ..
Nick. Panl Cordwino.
64
Mitchel. Thomas
Simonton, Wo
Stwi k. Jm. no return.
50
Shorekly. Jno, uo return
Sl:ench. Mich !. , no return ...
McChary, Robt 135 Tivlar. Francia, no returu ...
McCallon, Rol 210
Teets, Philip
McCallon, Thomas
Tanner, Christy ho return ...
Taun-r. Jnº
100
Ayer, John
Walker. Archibald
180
McCalister, Archibald 25 3 McDonald David ...
Worst. Mark 130
104
Morison. Jhº.
Wishan, Conrad
150
Mitchel, Abrani
Wear, Sim! 300
Nafshoe, Jacob, no return
White. Jn.
Nafshoe, Jos. ...
Fox, James ..
Nigh, A.lam 140
Nigh, Nicholas, no return ....
Freemen.
Christopher Keatly.
Ludwig Fishborn.
Jos. Farney.
Jacob Longenecker.
Fredr. Buck.
Martin Miller.
Anew. Wallns. Henry Stafford.
Geo. Gres.
Dan !. Plongh.
Jno. Nigh.
Abram Stickley.
Jno. Smith.
Robert MI. Cleary.
Jnº. Thompson.
Andw. Foster.
Geo. Henry.
Jany Donnal.
James Kenundy
Rohr, Allen.
Jos. Brosh.
Jnº. Gibb.
Mich1. Keatrin.
Jnº. Farmer.
James Hughey.
Jno. Shoemaker.
Wm. Hall.
Everhart Keatrin.
Jno. Link.
Wm. Hunter.
Jnº. Fraua.
Jolin Weary. Jnº. Leach.
Wendle Henry. Jnº. Hay.
As previously stated, between the year 1913, when the erection of Lebanon County cut off a large por- tion of Londonderry township, and the year 1:25, some proceedings were bad in the Quarter Sessions to remodel the townships of Derry and Londonderry. . none of which, however, -eemed to have received! the final sanction of the court. At November term. 1825, the court appointed three commissioners to in-
quire into the propriety of a division, who made re- port in favor of a division by a line " Beginning at a black-oak-tree on the eastern bank of the Swatara Creek, at the mouth of Strickler's Run; thence a due east course seven miles and one hundred and twenty perches to the Lebanon County line, at the farm of Jacob Longnecker." The court con- firmed this report on the 21st of Jannary, 1826, and gave to the northern section the name of Derry, and to the southern division the name of London- derry. (See Road Docket A, page 13.) Since that period the township has been limited in its dimen- sions by the erection of the township of Conewago. The township is bounded on the east by Conewago township; on the south by Conewago Creek, which separates it from Lancaster County; on the west by the Susquehanna River and the Swatara Creek, which separates it from Lower Swatara township; and on the north by Derry township. It covers an extensive arca, but there are few villages of any importance,-Port , Royal. noticed in the history of Middletown, being the most prominent.
About 1811 or 1812, Gainsburg, aud also called Franklin, was laid out by Conrad Grim, John Ful- weiler, and John C. Kramer. It was a venture of the speculative era in our State history, when there was a mania for building turnpikes and erecting towns every four or five miles along their route, the farmers selling their broad acres and investing their hard cash in town lots. This was well calculated to overdo the town business and hurry on a financial crash. Gainsburg did not survive its fledgeling, the , only houses now in the locality having been erected by the present generation.
THE CONEWAGO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAS located a little east of Gainsburg. It was one of the earliest churches of this Scotch-Irish neighborhood. A log building was erceted prior to 1741, for in that year the Rev. Samuel Black was their regular min- ister. The land is contiguous or rather inclosed by a tract of two hundred and two and five-eighths acres, which James Clark held by a warrant from the land- office dated Aug. 1, 1743. Samnel Clark conveyed it by an indenture Feb. 23, 1775, to William Braden, of Derry township. The land was afterwards patented to Robert Spear by patent deed Nov. 8, 1785, and was called "Spear's Choice," and called for 2023 acres and the usual allowance. The patent was en- rolled in roll -- office, in Patent Book No. 1, page 99, etc. The following memorandum, accompanying a draft, will explain itself ;
" Resurveyed for Robert spear, August 18, 1785, the above tra t of land, containing two hundred and two acres nut five-eighths and allow inces, situato in Derry township, Dauphin Cmuty, Lite Lancaster, by warrant granted to James Clark 25th of July, 1743 " Signed LIGTRAM GALBRAITH. " N. B. The above square piece of D'unteen by twenty perches is a Preshistorian to time-home and burying-grounds.
" To JOIN LUKENE > G.
"Returned Into the Land-Office the third November, 1735, for J hn Lukens, Esy., S. G.
EDWARD LINCH "
Kelly, Patrick 30
Kennedy, .no .
Kenrizh, Eman! 1 -0)
Kilpatrick, James. ...
Longenecker, Jacob, no re- turn
Longenecker, Dan1, no re- turn.
Longenecker, Abram. to re- torn
Shire, Jacob, Jr.
Shenck. Stopliel 44
Lineweaver, Peter. 107
Long. Alexr. ... Logan, Jny.
Long, Martin. no return ...
McQueen, Josiah 141
McQueen, Robs. (*)
Meineen, David. 156
Mcclintock, Joseph .30
Mitchel, David .. 200
Moor, William, sen? 150
Stickley. In .
Moor, William, Ir. 100 Mickley, Jacoli,
Mickley, Jno. 91)
Morrel. Fetrich, no retory.
Wolf, Mich.
Wiltmie, Ulry, vo return. ...
Morison, Jantes 100
Wolf. Conrad.
Keruaghan, James.
('Nel, Ji3. Painter, Hanhu 150
Johnuistanı, Wmn
Killinger, Geo., no return.
Kratrin, Fettigh, no return. Kelly, Janit's.
127
127
B .;. Conrai
Penogle. Martin ...
Noll, C'bris"
Over, Peter. 250
-
Anthony Tema.
McCallon, Jna 144
421
CONEWAGO TOWNSHIP.
Robert Spear assigned his patent to Robert Cole- man ; Sept. 21, 17-4. William Braden conveyed it to Robert Spear; and John Spear, Nov. 5, 1804, trans- ferred it to Robert Coleman, the asssignee of Robert Spear of the patent. Robert Coleman sold it, June 15, 1818, to Robert Dempsey, whose administrator. Jacob Redsecker, on April 13, 1831, conveyed it to John Conrad. The latter's administrator, llenry Fisher, sold it; June 16, 1841, to John Fisher, who, March 11, 1842, conveyed it to George Hess. John B. Coleman, Feb. 24, 1836, conveyed his interest in it to Samuel Hoffer, who in turn transferred to George Hess April 8, 1842, making the latter the owner in fee. George Hess conveyed it April 4. 1>€8. to Abraham Rutt, who in April, 1875, sold to John Olwine, the present owner. So, this old church lot is in the midst of a farm, repeatedly sold and trans- ferred as land. The title, however, to the old grave- yard is by law vested in the Presbytery of Carlisle, who should take charge of it and have it properly inclosed. What has been supposed to have been a church foundation is a dilapidated wall, inclosing the burial-place of some important families. There is no inscriptive stone to tell what it really was. It is about ten by twelve feet. Clearly there is no mark of a church at this spot. What is very remarkable,
there is not a tombstone, or part of one, with any inscription in the ma-s of fragments of such memno- rials which surround the family inclosure spoken of. The stones are of the red sandstone of the neighbor- ing hills,-many of them free from all evidence of manual adornment .- weatherbeaten as well as rough.
ISLANDS IN THE SUSQUEHANNA .- Several very important i-lands in the Susquehanna are included in Londonderry township. In the days when the shad fisheries of the Su-quehanna were productive and valuable, these islands were considered the choicest fishing-rights on the river. The principal ones are Shelly's. nearest the York County shore ; Elliott's, east of it ; and Hill Island north, nearly op- posite the mouth of the Swatara Creek. Hill Island is noted for being the place whence, during the Mil- lerite excitement of 1844, a score of firm believers assembled, expecting from thence to be translated heavenward. After enduring the severe weather of that lonely night on Hill Island, the morning dawn not bringing the expected millennium, the converts wended their way home, wiser than before.
Shelly's and the adjoining island have recently be- come favorite tobacco ground. the richness and pecu- liarity of the soil admirably adapting them for tobacco culture.
CONEWAGO TOWNSHIP.
THIS township was organized by an act of Assem- bly approved April 2, 1850. which enacted "that from and after the passage of this act all that part of the townships of Derry and Londonderry lying within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the Conewago Creek, the line of the counties of Dauphin and Lancaster, at the place where Brill's Run empties into said creek ; and from tbence by a straight line running parallel with the line dividing the counties of Dauphin and Lebauon to a point that by running a straight line from said point at a right angle with the aforesaid parallel >aid straight line will intersect the said line of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon at a point not more than one-half of a mile north of the Mennonite meeting-house at or near said county line : and from thenee along the line of the countie- of Dauphin and Lebanon to the line of the county of Lancaster; and from thence down said line to place of beginning, -hall hereafter form a separate election district and township, and shall be called Conewago," etc.
The township was so named for the creek which forms ity entire southern boundary. It is four and
one-fourth miles in length by three and one-half miles in width, and in population one of the smallest in the county. The southern portion along the Con- ewago Creek is a beautiful plain, which gradually slopes from its northern margin, the granite ridge, towards the creek. It has good pasture meadows and fine farms. There are sections of the township. how- ever, much broken by rocky elevations, but even here and there between these are often rich fields and farms. In the northwestern part are the sand-hills, which culminate in a few prominent spurs belonging to that system of which the Round Top in London- derry is the most striking. Beautiful springs gush out of these hillsides, and as the early settlers buil: near running water, some of the oldest farms are in this locality.
Indian implements are frequently found,-toma- hawks, axes, and arrow-heads. Two hominy -- tones, capable of holding a peek, are in existence, having been preserved,-one in the possession of Cyrus ti. Shenk, who has it in me at hi- barn ; another on the adjoining farm. A curious stone of this E shape has been found. In this locality traces are to be seen of a
422
HISTORY OF DAUPHIN COUNTY.
high fence surrounding a plot of ground, erected by the Indians for entrapping deer.
Among the early settlers in the neighborhood were Christopher Shoop, John Buchs, Leonard Wallers, Rev. John Roan, Robert Carothers, and David John- son. The tract of land which Moses Potts had sur- veyed to him March 29, 1755, he sold to Michael Shenk in 1770. The Hoffers came about 1800. Other families about the same period, if not earlier, were in the locality,-the Lougeneckers, Riser<, Grubb-, Lehmans, etc. In 1799, Goss' mill, which has also connected with it a saw-mill. was erected. On the farms of John Risser and Benjamin Longenecker were distilleries about the year 1750. Risser's mill was built in 1770, and Redsecker's in 1776.
There are three churches within the township limits. The Mennonite meeting-hon-e, near the Derry line, on the northeast, was built about 1780; the Brethren's Church in 1854, and the Union meet- ing-house in 1869.
The first schools were taught by the church mini-ter under large trees during favorable weather and at such other places as opportunity afforded. In 1790 there were only five schools in that section, principally Ger- man. About 1795 an English school was organized where Henry Shenk now resides. It was taught by Stephen Templeton. The one-story log school-house, twelve by sixteen feet, in which Templeton taught comprised three rooms,-a bed-room, kitchen, and a school-room. On each side a portion of a log was left out for a row of window-panes, and it is presumed va- grants did not push up the sash for ingress to lodge, nor was the teacher troubled to close and open the shutters. Some sixty pupils were crowded in this . quently six horses constituted the team.
small room. Shortly after Templeton came another school established by a Mr. MeMullen. These things existed until about the year 1800, when the schools were generally kept at private houses. The names of Abraham Snyder and others of the earlier days, and those of Rev. Speck, Samuel Hoffer, Joseph Clark, and the Techtinyers of later times are intimately con- nected with the schools of the neighborhood. For many years school was taught in the old Mennonite meeting-house, down to the adoption of the present system of education.
The township has two villages. BACHMANSVILLE, a post-town, is situated in the northeastern part, and was named for the Bachmans, who erected the first buildings of any importance. Its population is less than a hundred. MOUNT HARRISON, or FOLTZ'S STORE, near the centre of the township, is a hamlet of some six or eight honses. It was named Mount Har- rison by the Kreiter-, who kept store there during the Harrison campaign of 1840. It is beautifully situated on an eminence between Middletown and Colebrook.
There are three grist-inills in the township,-Red- secker's, in the southwestern part, built in 1776; Goss', near the centre, in 1799; and Risser's, in the southeastern corner, erected in 1769. In early times they hauled all their grain to Philadelphia over poor roads, and little or no accommodation "for man or beast" by the way. The teams at night halted by some stream of water, the feeding-trough was fixed upon the wagon-tungne, and there the horses ate and slept, no matter how inclement the weather, the drivers stowing themselves snugly under the wagon- cover in the "fuhrmons bet." Four, five, and fre-
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HANOVER TOWNSHIP.
AT February sessions, 1736-37, a petition was pre- sented to the conrt of Lancaster County stating that many of the inhabitants of Derry township, living on the northwest side of the Suratara Creek, labored under inconveniences by reason of the largeness of the township, and asking to be divided from the other part thereof, and that their bounds might be as fol- lows: " To be divided on the west from Peshtank by Beaver Creek, from its mouth to the mountain ; from Lebanon on the east and Derry on the south, by wa- tara Creek from Beaver Creek mouth to the forks, and thence by the north branch thereof to the moun- tain ; which was allowed by the court and ordered to be recorded, and that the said township be called Hanover." The boundaries of this township (30
named for the House of Hanover) as originally laid out are all natural, and therefore cannot easily be mistaken. but there is an evident mistake in stating the petitioners to be inhabitants of Derry township, residing northwest of the Swatara Creek, and that their prayer was for a division of Derry township. . A glance at the boundaries of Derry will show that there was no part of that township on the northwest side of Swatara Creek, and the division lines asked for and granted did not touch upon the territory at all. The mistake is not of any practical importance, but seems evident that the petition was from inhabitants of Peshtank, and for a division of that township. Han- over. as thus laid off, embraced parts of what was be- fore Peshtank and Lebanon townships.
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423
HANOVER TOWNSHIP.
During the years 1768 to 1775 freqnent efforts were made for a division of the township of Hanover, those in the east end favoring a division, those in the west end in opposition. The war of the Revolution open- ing, the question was not mooted until the efforts were being made for the erection of the new county of Dauphin. The matter was brought to the atten- tion of the court at Lancaster at the February ses- sions, 1785, from which we take the following record :
"The court, taking into consideration the limit- of the township of Hanover and great difficulties of the several officers therein in discharging their respective duties, on due consideration and advisement, do di- rect a division thereof by a small strean of water running through the same, which is called the West Branch of Priest's Run, and rises on the lands of Philip Rank, and from thenee by the said stream or ron of water until it empties itself into swatara Creek at Michael Brown's mill : and do further denominate that division which is next to Jonestown by the name of East Hanover, and the other division thereof by the name of West Hanover."
The stream of water called Priest's Run in the foregoing record is not found by that name on Thomas Smith's map, nor is any one now living in that sec- tion of the county who knows of a stream by that name; but from the best information which has been obtained, that marked on Smith'- map, and now gen- erally known as Raccoon Creek, was the dividing line between East and West Hanover townships down to the year 1813, when Lebanon County wa- taken from Dauphin, the northwest line of which runs in the neighborhood of Raccoon Creek, and, indeed, the head of that creek is made one of the point- of that line, and the running of that line so near the dividing line of East and West Hanover townships made it of but little practical importance where the separating line of the two townships was; it may, however, be assumed with reasonable certainty that Raeeoon Creek was the line.
There is another question which it seems proper and in place here to refer to, it is as to the true boun- dary on the north of East and West Hanover town- sbips. In point of what may be called practice, it seems those townships were held to extend to the Second Mountain at least from an early day. If the records are consulted it by no means is certain that the practice was in accordance with them, or that there was any authority, until a later day, for sup- posing those townships extended beyond the First Mountain, other than long usage. When the town- ship of Paxtang was erected. in 1729, it extended from Swatara Creek to Kohtohtoning Hill, above Peter Allen's ; where Peter Allen's was, or whether the First Mountain of the range was the only one known by the name of Kohtohtoning. it is now in- possible to know. The probability is that -tart from below and running up the river, if it had been in- tended to pass the First Mountain and adopt the
Second, it would have been so stated ; this, however, is but conjecture. The next matter of record bearing on the question occurs when Hanover township was erected in 1737. Beaver Creek, front its month to the mountain, was made the dividing line between Han- over and Peshtank. Beaver Creek had its source at the southern base of the First Mountain, and the di- vi-ion line was extended no farther. It should have been stated before, when referring to the boundarie- of Peshtank, that when the Kohtohtoning Hill was reached, the line ran eastward by the south side of said bill to the meridian of the mouth of Quitopa- hilla Creek. Again. in the year 1767, the court or- dered the division line between Upper and Lower Paxtang townships to be made from " the mouth of Fishing Creek ; thence along the top of Kittatinia Mountain, next to Lower Partang. to Beaver Creek." Hanover township was divided into east and west in the year 1785; the dividing line was a run, having its source on the south side of the First Mountain. In this case, like that of the division of Peshtank and Hanover, the record provides no line extending beyond the First Mountain. The practice of treating the ter- ritory between the First and Second Mountains as within the Hanovers probably originated soon after the organization of Dauphin County, in the year 1755. The question whether East Hanover township ex- tended beyond the First Mountain in the year 1796 occurred in the trial of the case of Gloninger rs. God- dard, in the Common Pleas of Lebanon County, and which is reported in 5th Watts, 221. The under- standing and practice before mentioned was fully proved on that trial ; in the Supreme Court, however, although it was not thought necessary to the question, the judge who delivered the opinion of the court clearly intimated that the records showed the First Mountain to be the true boundary. This question and these matters relating to it are here merely referred to as a part of the history of township boundaries, and not to be understood as suggesting any existing dithi- culty ; incidentally the Second Mountain has become the record line of West Hanover, as may be seen on reference to the records establishing the township of Rush in 1820, and the division of West Hanover towu- ship in 1842, both in Dauphin County.
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